Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Rank

Skipper (boating) A sea captain, ship's captain, captain, master, or shipmaster, is a high-grade licensed mariner who holds ultimate command and responsibility of a merchant vessel. The captain is responsible for the safe and efficient operation of the ship, in ...

, a person who has command of a vessel * Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve * The leader of a

Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) Sea Scouts is a program of the Scouting America for coeducational teenagers and young adults ages 14 (or 13 and have completed the eighth grade) through 20. Aims and principles In addition to the Scout Oath and Law, Sea Scouts also subscribe t ...

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Sports

* Another name for a team's

manager (baseball) In baseball, the field manager (commonly referred to as the manager) is the equivalent of a head coach who is responsible for overseeing and making final decisions on all aspects of on-field team strategy, lineup selection, training and instruct ...

captain (association football) The captain of a association football, football/soccer team, sometimes known as the skipper, is a team member chosen to be the on-pitch leader of the team; they are often one of the older or more experienced members of the squad, or a player t ...

, or

captain (cricket) The captain of a cricket team, often referred to as the skipper, is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of the other players. As in other sports, the captain is usually experienced ...

* One who skips using a

skipping rope A skipping rope (or jump rope) is a tool used in a sport involving rhythmic jumping over a rope swung underfoot and overhead. The activity, practiced both recreationally and competitively, encompasses disciplines such as freestyle routines—f ...

* Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season * Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People

* Skipper (surname) * Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player * Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman * Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion * Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom * Thomas Pinckney "Skipper" Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University * Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American taekwondo 10th degree black belt * Floyd B. Olson (1891–1936), American politician and lawyer * Skipper Roberts (baseball) (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher * Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places

* Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Skippers Canyon Skippers Canyon is a historic and scenic gorge, some 22 kilometres in length, several kilometres north of Queenstown, New Zealand. Today accessed from Queenstown via the same road that leads to the Coronet Peak skifield, Skippers Canyon is carv ...

, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment

The Skipper The Skipper is the title and nickname of Jonas Grumby, a fictional character from the 1960s situation comedy ''Gilligan's Island''. Played by Alan Hale Jr., the Skipper (the character's actual name was rarely mentioned after the show's pilot epi ...

, a character from the television series ''Gilligan's Island'' *

Skipper (Barbie) Skipper Roberts is a doll created by Mattel in 1964 to be Barbie's young sister. Since 2009, she has a purple streak in her hair and is shown to have a tech-savvy and clever personality. Compared to her sisters, Skipper is shy and quiet, but also ...

, a doll, Barbie's younger sister * Skipper (Madagascar), a character in ''Madagascar'' and ''The Penguins of Madagascar'' * '' Kill Cruise'' (German title: ''Der Skipper''), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley * ''Skippers'' (TV programme), an Irish documentary series * Skipper Riley, a character in the movie ''

Planes Plane most often refers to: * Aero- or airplane, a powered, fixed-wing aircraft * Plane (geometry), a flat, 2-dimensional surface * Plane (mathematics), generalizations of a geometrical plane Plane or planes may also refer to: Biology * Plane ...

'' * "Skipper" (''The Bill''), 1987 TV episode * "Skipper" (''Red Dwarf''), 2017 TV episode

Animals

Skipper (butterfly) Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies). They were previously placed in a separate superfamily, Hesperioidea, but have since been placed in the superfamily Papilion ...

, a family of butterflies * Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Other uses

* AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile *

AMT Skipper The AMT Skipper was a stainless steel copy of the .45 ACP Colt Combat Commander made by Arcadia Machine and Tool. Statistics SKIPPER *Chambering: .45 ACP., .40 S&W *Barrel Length: 4 inches. *Overall Length: 7.5 inches. *Weight: 0.9 kg ...

, a semi-automatic pistol * USS ''Skipper'' (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper * Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft * Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia * Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants *

Skipper (computer software) Skipper is a visualization tool and Automatic programming, code/schema generator for PHP O/R mapper, ORM frameworks like Doctrine (PHP), Doctrine2, Doctrine (PHP), Doctrine, Propel, and CakePHP, which are used to create database abstraction layer. ...

, a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks